J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heriot's Hospital and Edinburgh Castle 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heriot's Hospital and Edinburgh Castle’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
Heriot’s Hospital and Edinburgh Castle 1834
D26246
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 80
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘– one is like rest heriot’ top centre
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘80’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII –80’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like folio 81 (D26247), this view of Heriot’s Hospital School and Edinburgh Castle was made from the south-east of the school grounds. Turner stood on the driveway that is seen in the foreground of the sketch; there are figures with horses at the right. As on folio 79 (D26245), Heriot’s Hospital is depicted in outline only, the artist having made a special feature of the domes on the many tower and turrets, except for the clock tower which he drew in more detail; he also made a special study of the tower on folio 78 (D26243). An inscription next to the tower refers to a small architectural detail that Turner has sketched, noting ‘one is like [the] rest’.
For references to further sketches of Heriot’s Hospital, see folio 81.
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Thomas Ardill
November 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Heriot’s Hospital and Edinburgh Castle 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-heriots-hospital-and-edinburgh-castle-r1136174, accessed 26 April 2024.